| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 464 pages
...Una wander wide Thro' wasteful solitudes, and lurid heaths, Weary, forlorn ; than when the feted fair Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames Launches in...sense, And coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss." Joseph Warton, in the Advertisement to his own Odes, 1746, says, "The public has been so much accustomed... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 912 pages
...Una wander wide Thro' wasteful solitudes, and lurid heaths, Weary, forlorn ; than when the fated fair Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames Launches in all the lustre of brocade, AmK! the splendours of the laughing sun. The gay description palls upon the sense, And coldly strikes... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1808 - 698 pages
...Lock. Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames, Launches in all the lustre of brocade, Amid the splendors of the laughing sun ; The gay description palls upon...coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss. Pleasures of Mslanchaly. i Warton's mind was formed for the grand and the sublime. Were his imitations less verbal,... | |
| Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1808 - 358 pages
...wander wide Through wasteful solitudes and lurid heaths, Weary, forlorn; than where the fated * fair Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames, Launches in all the lustre of brocade, Amid the splendors of the laughing sun; The gay description palls upon the sense And coldly strikes the mind... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...bosom bright of silver Thames Lannches in all the lustre of brocade, Amid the splendors of the langhing Sun. The gay description palls upon the sense, And coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss. Ye youths of Albion's beanty-blooming isle, Whose brows have worn the wreath of luckless love. Is there... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 610 pages
...bosom bright of silver Thames I . mein -, in all the lustre of brocade, Amid the splendours of tin laughing Sun: The gay description palls upon the sense. And coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss. From the Rev. T. H'artoa't PUaturei of Melancholy. Though join'd by magic skill, with many a rime.... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 pages
...208 Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames, Launches in all the lustre of brocade, Amid the splendors of the laughing sun; The gay description palls upon...the sense And coldly strikes the mind with feeble Wiss. Pleasures of Melancholy. Warton's mind was formed for the grand and the sublime. Were his imitations... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 730 pages
...lurid heaths, Weary, forlorn, than where the fated fair * * Belinda. Vide Pope's Rape of the Lock. •' Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames, Launches in...Were his imitations less verbal, and less numerous, [ should be led to imagine that the peculiar beauties of bis favourite authors had sunk so impressively... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 498 pages
...Una wander wide Thro' wasteful solitudes, and lurid heaths, Weary, forlorn ; than when the fated fair Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames Launches in...description palls upon the sense, And coldly strikes tlie mind with feeble bliss." Joseph Warton, in the Advertisement to his own Odes, 1746, says, " The... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...lurid heaths, Weary, forlorn; than when the fated fair Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames Lunches in all the lustre of brocade,' Amid the splendours...sense, And coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss. Ye youths of Albion's beauty-blooming isle, Whose brows have worn the wreath of luckless love, Is there... | |
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